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>> why didn't you take him all the way back to the scene? >> because i was afraid of what i would see. >> reporter: gavin was dead by then and the prosecutor told the jury creech wasn't going to any hospital he was setting out to recruit help for his cover-up. >> so the first person he calls is jorge valles. >> reporter: jorge valles was the first of a series of friends who told an incredible tale. >> did you ask any of these people a central question, what were you thinking? >> they all ultimately said that they were trying to help johnny. >> because he's such a nice man. >> because he was a ...

18-years-old back then, asked us not to use her last name not after she found herself in the middle of a homicide investigation when police came across her while doing surveillance on john creech. lauren used to work in the pro shop of the powerhouse gym in chatsworth, california and that's where she first met creech >> he was beautiful. he was tall and he was muscular. and a lot of women especially wanted to date him, a lot of men wanted to be him >> reporter: lauren fell for him. he told her he was separated from his wife chandy, but that didn't stop chandy from calling lauren >> she texted ...

Hills sheriff station to report gavin missing. and waited and waited. days later, gavin's family went on nbc4 in los angeles to plead for help >> i'm not going to stop until i find him so please help me find him. >> if you guys want to each pick up one of these streets. now i'm in panic mode, we've got to do something. >> what did that feel like being in that spot >> oh, it was surreal. >> reporter: the smith family put together a $20,000 reward for any information leading to gavin's whereabouts. nothing turned up. >> and i would think with every hour that went by, it would be more and more di...

>> he clearly stopped using. he was feeling healthier than he felt in years. >> reporter: but when detectives john o'brien and ty labbe learned about gavin's addiction, they had to consider a raft of new possibilities. >> he disappeared. maybe he overdosed we didn't exactly have any of those answers. >> driving all over the valley, we would have moments in the car of where we looked at each other and said, "i think this is a suicide. and then an hour later, we'd interview somebody and something would happen and we'd go, "i think this is a murder." and our feelings and our gut instincts are goi...

>> they're no longer living. >> and you must have a reason for knowing that >> that's what i would assume. >> reporter: it turned out lisa did know something just not what tara suspected there were secrets, which lisa and gavin kept hidden. >> i was the love of gavin's life he adored me our family was exactly what he wanted to have he just got lost >> reporter: lost. it all started in the early 80's, even before she met gavin, when he was a stuntman on the tv series "remington steele." he played a shooting victim, falling from a second story window the stunt went wrong and he broke his back >>...